Practical Chinese Qigong for Home Health Care

Many people are gradually beginning to recognize qigong as a unique way to stay in good health, drive away diseases and maintain longevity. When people are afflicted with diseases, and acupuncture and medicines fail to provide ideal treatment results, they often turn to qigong therapies for help.

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The book, Practical Chinese Qigoing for Home Health Care, with 130 illustrations, is compiled specifically for this purpose. It introduces 13 kinds of practical home health care qigoing and qigong therapies for 68 common and/or unusual diseases. Also provided are examples of typical cases. In addtion, this book provides information on qigong massage for natural beauty. As the title suggests, it is a practical book on the use of qigong for health care practised at home.

Contents

Chapter One Introduction to qigong
What is qigong
The effects of qigoing
The essentials of qigong practice
Matters needing attention
Correcting deviations from the path of qigong
Chapter Two Practical qigoing for home health care
Quiescent sitting health cultivation exercise
Relaxed and quiescent recumbent exercise
Standing straight like a stake cultivation exercise
Morning waklking exercise
Heallth cultivation massage
Ear massage to stengthen helath
Logevity exercise
Eight pieces of brocade exercise
Sinew-transforming exrcise
The Buddha's guardians' exercise
The five animals frolic
Harmonization exercise
Taiji qigong
Chapter Three Qigong therapy for some common diseases and serious diseases
The common cold
Neurasthenia
Insomnia
Chronic bronchitis and emphysema
Tuberculosis
Bronchial asthma
Pneumothorax
Virus pneumonia
Chronic gastritis
Gastric and duodenal ulcer
Gastroptosia
Volvulus of stomach
Chronic hepatitis
Cirrhosis
Cholelithiasis
intestinal adhesion
Diarrhea
Constipation
Procoptosis
Hemorrhoids
Hypotension
Hypertension
Cerebral arteriosclerosis
Apoplexy sequelae
Coronary heart diease
Chronic rheumatic heart disease
Congestive heart failure
Chronic myocarditis
Primary thrombocytopenic purpura
Diaphragm convulsion
Acromelic arteriospasm
Hysteria
Facial nerve paralysis
Rheumatod arthritis
Cervical spondylopathy
Stiff neck
Scapulohumeral periarthritis
Tennis elbow
Myotenositis of common externso muscle of the fingesr
Prolapse of lumbar intervertebral disc
Acute lumbar sprain
Lumbar muscle strain
Sciatica
Osteophyte
Angitis
Peripheral neuritis
Chronic nephritis
Sexual impotence
Diabetes mellitus
Prostatomegaly
Variococele
Alopecia aeata
Vitiligo
Chronic pelvic inflammation
Metroptosis
Menausal syndrome
Dysmenorrhea
Menstrual disorder
Dysfunctional uterine bleeding
Myopia
Senile cataracts
Glaucoma
Electric ophthalmia
Meniere's syndrome
Laryngopharyngitis
Chronic rhinopathy
Chronic tympanitis
Chapter Four The accessory therapeutic method of qigoing for carcinosis
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Pulmonary carcinoma
Esophagus carcinoma
Stomach carcinoma
Hepatic carcinoma
Breast cancer
Cervical carcinoma
Malignant lymphoma
Osteosarcoma
Chapter Five Jingluo and qigoing point massage
The distribution of jigluo and its functions
The commonly used qigong point massage
Chapter Six Qigoing massage for natural beauty
Using qigoing to make the face more beautiful
Using qigong to make the neck more beautiful
Exercises for female beauty
Slimming for females
Body-shaping exercises
Eliminating fat in the waist
Correction of humpback
Elimination of double chins
Exercises for puerperal restoration

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